After Dinner Tricks by Walter Gibson

This is a lovely collection of simple tricks, puzzles, brain teasers and other similar items. Each one is explained with text and an illustration.

    INTRODUCTION
    Tricks With Matches
        Strike Safety Matches Without Box
        Levitation of a Match Box
        The Leaning Match
        A Light That Failed
        Which End Burns First?
        Balancing a Match
        The Mystic Matches
        A Puzzle With Matches
        A Square by Moving One Match
        Self-Serving Match Box
    Tricks With Coins
        Mysterious Sounding Money
        The Changed Coins in Hand
        Chosen Coin Picked Out
        Coin Appears in Empty Box
        A Puzzle With a Coin
        Coin Balanced on Tumbler
        To See Both Sides of a Coin at Once
        Disappearing Coin in Box
        Coin Dissolves Into Air
    Tricks With Cards
        The Rejected Soldiers
        Telling Cards from Backs
        The Three Aces
        Finding a Selected Card
        Separated Cards – Joined
        The Leaping Calling Card
    Tricks With Tumblers
        Tumbler From Pocket
        Magnetizing a Tumbler
        Balanced Glass of Water
        The Tuneful Tumbler
        Spiritualistic Glass of Water
    Tricks with Paper and Pencil
        Disappearing Bit of Paper
        A Divination
        A Feat of Strength
        The Magic Paper Bands
        Magnetized Paper
    Tricks with String and Elastic
        Jumping Rubber Band
        Finger and String
        Disappearing Elastic
    Tricks with Cigars and Cigarettes
        Adhering Cigarette
        Anti-Gravity Cigarette
        The Magic Cigar Band
        The Magnetized Cigar or Cigarette
        Find a Marked Cigarette Paper
    Tricks With Numbers
        To Find a Total of Secret Figures
        Rapid Addition to Make 100
    Tricks with Dice and Dominoes
        The Magnetized Dice
        To Foretell the End Numbers in a Game of Dominoes
    Miscellaneous Tricks
        Hypnotizing an Apple
        Illuminating Lump Sugar
        Here’s a Magical Sex Indicator
        Mysterious Spots on a Knife
        To Tell if Number on Dollar Bill Is Odd or Even
        The Changing Postage Stamp
        Changing an Orange to an Apple

1st edition 1921, 29 pages; PDF 39 pages.
word count: 6320 which is equivalent to 25 standard pages of text
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